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Literature
Hardback. The essays collected in this volume attest to a renewal of philosophical interest in how bodies think and how thought is embodied, a philosophy that has been deeply influenced by literature, the arts, and psychoanalysis. Editor(s): MacCannell, Juliet; Zakarin, Laura. Series: Irvine Studies in the Humanities. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 25. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804723060
- ISBN
- 9780804723060
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€ 158.08
€ 158.08
Hardback. Using structuralist and post-structuralist methods, this book analyzes a selection of influential Russian texts--classical, modernist, and contemporary--as dialogues with earlier works, in the light of new cultural contexts. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 25. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804723169
- ISBN
- 9780804723169
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€ 180.64
€ 180.64
Hardback. Drawing on archival materials, biography, war journalism, and theoretical texts, the author argues that the visionary politics of H.D.'s long poems cannot be reconciled with the feminist agendas currently attributed to them. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 542.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804723701
- ISBN
- 9780804723701
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€ 82.13
€ 82.13
Hardback. This work investigates a cluster of concepts that gather around the question of topography and its uses in criticism. They include the initiating efficacy of speech acts, ethical responsibility, political or legislative power and the relation of personification to landscape. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 396 pages, 10 half-tones. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 148 x 28. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 396
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804723787
- ISBN
- 9780804723787
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€ 180.10
€ 180.10
Hardback. The author argues that De Quincey's literary output, which is both a symptom and an effect of his addictions to opium and writing, plays an important role in the development of modern and modernist forms of subjectivity. Num Pages: 376 pages, 1 half-tone. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 145 x 38. Weight in Grams: 636.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804723930
- ISBN
- 9780804723930
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€ 115.08
€ 115.08
Hardback. These 2 essays demonstrate that, beyond example's rich genealogy in the rhetorical tradition, it involves issues that are central to current theories of meaning and ethics in literature and philosophy. Editor(s): Gelley, Alexander. Num Pages: 388 pages, 1 half-tone. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 30. Weight in Grams: 462.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 388
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804724005
- ISBN
- 9780804724005
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Condition: New
€ 169.27
€ 169.27
Hardback. A sociohistory of German bourgeois literature from 1770-1914 based on detailed readings of six cononical literary texts. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 33. Weight in Grams: 777.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804724029
- ISBN
- 9780804724029
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€ 115.79
€ 115.79
Hardback. This is a a collection of essays by Maurice Blanchot, a key figure in the exploration of the relationship between literature and philosophy. Recurring themes in the essays include:the relation of literature and language to death and the historical, personal, and social function of literature. Translator(s): Mandel, Charlotte. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 25. Weight in Grams: 595.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804724326
- ISBN
- 9780804724326
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Condition: New
€ 158.11
€ 158.11
Hardback. Using the events of May '68 as a historical touchstone, this book examines the political ramifications of the literary, philosophical, and psychoanalytic work known as French theory. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 635.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804724456
- ISBN
- 9780804724456
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Condition: New
€ 86.90
€ 86.90
Hardback. This work argues that literature can be defined, and that in its definition its unique value can be discovered. It identifies literature ontologically as a sign of the preconceptual, as the "ostensive moment" that discloses neither the purpose nor the structure of existence. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 482.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804724524
- ISBN
- 9780804724524
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€ 146.69
€ 146.69
Hardback. Written from a feminist perspective, this is a cultural and ideological study of modern China as seen in the writing of experimental fiction, one of the main attempts to subvert the conventions of socialist realism in contemporary Chinese literature. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBH; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 23. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804724630
- ISBN
- 9780804724630
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Condition: New
€ 135.73
€ 135.73
Hardback. This work examines three first-person novels that narrate spectacular failures of self-representationamd is an analysis of notions of truth and linguistic skepticism in the French novel. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 148 x 25. Weight in Grams: 457.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804724654
- ISBN
- 9780804724654
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€ 81.75
€ 81.75
Hardback. Focusing on the earliest extant version of the Grail legend, the author proposes a social interpretation of Chretien's romance as a story concerned with earthly violence and vendetta. Series: Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture. Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 2ADF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 27. Weight in Grams: 679.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804724814
- ISBN
- 9780804724814
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Condition: New
€ 99.26
€ 99.26
Hardback. The author analyzes the transformations of the love deities in later Middle English Chaucerian poetry, academic Latin discourses on classical myth, and French conventions that associate Venus and Cupid with Ovidian arts of love. Series: Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804725156
- ISBN
- 9780804725156
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Condition: New
€ 88.08
€ 88.08
Hardback. Through detailed readings of Montaigne, Schlegel, and Kafka, this book answers a challenge that has persisted in literary theory and literary history for almost two decades--how to historicize the concept of literature. Translator(s): Britto, Paulo. Num Pages: 356 pages, references, index. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 28. Weight in Grams: 710.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 356
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804725408
- ISBN
- 9780804725408
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Condition: New
€ 110.10
€ 110.10
Hardback. Arguing that Poe is exemplary in his ambivalent relationship to mass culture, the author offers a new theorization of mass culture and ideology. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 508.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804725415
- ISBN
- 9780804725415
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Condition: New
€ 76.59
€ 76.59
Hardback. This book contends that when late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century writers sought to explain the origins of emotions, they often discovered that their feelings may not really have been their own. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 493.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804725484
- ISBN
- 9780804725484
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.79
€ 135.79
Hardback. This volume presents three essays by the French philosopher and theorist Jacques Derrida on the ethical, political and linguistic issues posed by the act of "naming" Translator(s): Dutoit, Thomas. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 203.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804725545
- ISBN
- 9780804725545
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.82
€ 113.82
Hardback. Toward the end of James's career, Charles Scribner's Sons offered to publish his collected work under the overall title The New York Edition of the Novels and Tales of Henry James. This book is the first comprehensive effort to apprehend the full complexity of James's self-performance there. Editor(s): McWhirter, David. Num Pages: 352 pages, 29 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 30. Weight in Grams: 750.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804725644
- ISBN
- 9780804725644
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 180.66
€ 180.66
Hardback. Translator(s): Emanuel, Susan. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 431 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 39. Weight in Grams: 747.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 431
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804725682
- ISBN
- 9780804725682
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 169.80
€ 169.80